Kate Middleton's evening gowns: The most stylish dresses worn by the Duchess of Cambridge Style guide In Pictures Historically, women's evening dress tended to be more physically revealing than day dress. Worn in private or semi private spaces, dresses with low necklines and bare arms were accepted as aesthetically sublimated eroticism. [ Ballgowns: sixty years of British glamour celebrated in V&A exhibition Evening dress American The Metropolitan Museum of Art